The symptoms went away after reversing installation of gnash/swfdec, that is:
Completely removed the following packages: gnash gnash-common libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-gnome swfdec-mozilla
The symptoms went away after reversing installation of gnash/swfdec, that is:
Completely removed the following packages:
gnash
gnash-common
libswfdec-0.8-0
swfdec-gnome
swfdec-mozilla